There's no Place Like Home

Hello!
Its been a while yeah? Urghhh that's all I'm going to say...I've had the Mother of all coldy fluey things this week that just won't go and I've only now started to function, and blog, again.

The photos of this look aren't fantastic (the sun wasn't cooperating that day) but this manicure was captivating and I couldn't stop staring at the shimmery blood red of it. It reminded me so forcibly of the ruby slippers that I had to include it in this post. I wonder whether if i click these magical nails together 3 times they will take me home so I don't have to get the train?

This look was created by layering a sheer red transparent jelly polish over a bold gold glitter. The only thing I wasn't keen on was the texture as the glitter obviously made it bumpy. After these photos I added about 100 coats of topcoat!

Its maddening that the camera makes these look like simple red glitter! in reality The jelly over the glitter gives much more depth and a subtle shimmer but with plenty of colour punch that you rarely get from one polish with glitter suspended. Ah well you will have to try for yourselves and see. xx H

The polishes were nails inc. Victoria (which is a really shiny blood red jelly and is lovely on its own) and Shelton street (a very opaque brassy gold glitter)

Fairy Zebra?

I know it sounds like I have a serious animal problem here but this is just what popped to mind. After the awesome Khaki leopard nails (with added moose) I was feeling something a little less fierce. I decided on a base of my fave beigey pink freebie with Instyle magazine a million years ago: Nails inc's creatively named "instyle mink" I added white essence stampy polish again with my Bundle Monster Plates in a zebra pattern. I hear you asking "why the fairy bit?" well that's down to a top coat of grown up glitter. Alessandro's 'pro white glitter' again its a German brand that I got on holiday. The glitter is very small transparent particles and it is not irridescent, just a simple clear-silver shimmer and its perfect and not too tarty with the zebra. There you have it... a fairy zebra of course.